Scarlet Ibis
Eudocimus ruber · Bird
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A blazing red wading bird of the mudflats, mangroves and river mouths of northern South America and Trinidad, red only because it eats red crustaceans (the young are grey and brown). It flies in big flocks and nests in colonies of hundreds, sometimes 2,000 nests in the mangroves. Its feathers went into native featherwork and later fed a heavy poaching trade; its meat and eggs are eaten.
- Danger
- Harmless
- How it is met
- In colonies, by day
- Size
- Tiny
- In winter
- Active in winter
Where it lives
Swamp, Marsh, Mangrove, Estuary
Gives
Scarlet Ibis Feather, Scarlet Ibis Egg
Sources
- Katherine Phelps, Eudocimus ruber (scarlet ibis). Animal Diversity Web, University of Michigan Museum of Zoology, 2004.
- Scarlet ibis. Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, 2026.
- Ibis rouge. Wikipédia, l'encyclopédie libre, 2026.
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